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The History of video games (audio 1) Escuche el audio 1 y enumere los siguientes párrafos. Observe que el primer ítem ha sido respondido. Soon, other companies in Japan and the United States started making similar games. It had a big influence on future games. But it could only be played on a computer at MIT. This week on our program, we explore the history of video games and look at some popular releases from the past year. Their first big hit was called Pong. It was an electronic form of ping-pong or table tennis that was easy enough for anyone to play. Atari video games became hugely popular at arcade centers. In nineteen sixty-two, a team of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a game called Spacewar! Early versions of video games were not devices for the average person to play at home. Programmers developed them using what were then huge university computers. Video games have evolved over the past fifty years into one of the most popular 1 forms of modern media entertainment. Ten years later, in nineteen seventy-two, an engineer named Nolan Bushnell and a programmer, Ted Dabney, started the Atari company in California. Atari produced coin-operated video games. Popular games during the late seventies and early eighties included Space Invaders, Asteroids, Defender and Pac-Man. Activity # 2 (audio 2) Escuche el audio 2 y llene cada espacio con la palabra que corresponda. home Microsoft home Nintendo Video also 360 playing system influential create 460 game competitors world developing Nintendo also began _________ arcade games, and then _______ systems that could be played at ______. One of the most ________ programmers in the world works for Nintendo. Shigeru Miyamoto helped ______ hits like Donkey Kong, Super Mario Brothers and the Legend of Zelda. Nintendo ________ found success with the Nintendo Entertainment System for ________ video games at ________ and the handheld Game Boy. Today the main ________ to Nintendo systems are Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s X-Box _______. .

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